The next James Bond

comment by Pierre Reedy (U1734)
posted 4 hours, 4 minutes ago
It would be fun if he new James Bond was gay and there was bumming scenes instead of scenes with women
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Never Say Never Again, eh Barry? <wink>

I think they will getta white male.

Their is a backlash aganest ‘wokeness’ as racist homophobes r fiting back about being made 2 feel bad about being racist homophobes.

comment by Gillespie Rd. (U18361)
posted 54 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
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posted 4 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
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comment by Robb (Steve) Smith (U22716)
posted 30 minutes ago
I’m confused. Don’t people realise that they’ll just reboot the whole Bond franchise? The Craig ‘universe’ is over so they’ll just recast everyone and start again.
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No James Bond has ever died before though.
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Technically, no one really saw him die.


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Correct. So whats the plot to get him out alive I wonder.
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I can't remember all the details, but Ian Fleming wrote a somewhat similar story arc in YOLT.

Bond suffers a blow to the head in an explosion after killing Blofeld, loses his memory, washes up on a beach and settles down to married life as a Japanese fisherman.

His new wife keeps the story hidden, while the rest of the world believes him dead; complete with an obituary appearing in the papers.

Later on, he then reads something about "Vladivostok" which triggers a fuzzy memory. Setting things up for "From Russia with Love".
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Octojobby
Browneye
Brownfinger

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 32 minutes ago
comment by Pierre Reedy (U1734)
posted 4 hours, 4 minutes ago
It would be fun if he new James Bond was gay and there was bumming scenes instead of scenes with women
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Never Say Never Again, eh Barry? <wink>
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Octojobby
Browneye
Brownfinger

comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 32 minutes ago
comment by Pierre Reedy (U1734)
posted 4 hours, 4 minutes ago
It would be fun if he new James Bond was gay and there was bumming scenes instead of scenes with women
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Never Say Never Again, eh Barry? <wink>
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Octojobby
Browneye
Brownfinger
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No Time to Pie
For Moist Eyes Only
Moon Taker
The Man With the Golden Shower
Pearls are Forever
Dr Maybe (I've Never Done This Before)
Thunderball (Returns)
Tomorrow Definitely Dies (When I Wake Up Next to Him)

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 32 minutes ago
comment by Pierre Reedy (U1734)
posted 4 hours, 4 minutes ago
It would be fun if he new James Bond was gay and there was bumming scenes instead of scenes with women
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Never Say Never Again, eh Barry? <wink>
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Octojobby
Browneye
Brownfinger
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No Time to Pie
For Moist Eyes Only
Moon Taker
The Man With the Golden Shower
Pearls are Forever
Dr Maybe (I've Never Done This Before)
Thunderball (Returns)
Tomorrow Definitely Dies (When I Wake Up Next to Him)
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Bond Guy:

Hans Koch

Jamie Dornan.

Or Charlize Theron.

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
Here's the reason they won't fvck with the formula too much.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/James-Bond#tab=summary
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OK, I'll bite.

Eon have been "fvcking with the formula" with their casting decisions for 3 decades now. This data shows a cumulative rise in earnings with significant jumps any time a "controversial / non-traditional" casting decision is made.

Goldeneye - Casting a woman as "M". More than doubled the previous total earnings.

Die Another Day - A black woman as Bond's main love interest. ----A 20% spike in total earnings.

Casino Royale - A moody franchise reboot. Casting a short, stocky, blond-haired man as Bond. As well as having a black man as Felix Leiter (A throwback to the experimental casting in the non-Eon Bond movies). ---- A 40% spike in earnings over the previous movie. Flying in the face of all the anger and talk of boycotts.

Skyfall - Naomie Harris as Moneypenny. With "Q" as an openly gay government operative. -- Still holds the earnings record, almost double the previous movie. Similarly flying in the face of all the anger and talk of boycotts.

No time to die - Same casting choices as Skyfall. With Lashana Lynch as "007" leading to a key change in plot dynamics. --- Fourth highest earning movie worldwide in 2021, despite CoVid. Not to mention a coordinated right-wing smear campaign.

At this point, it seems the actual "winning formula" involves shaking things up every now and then.

Elba would have made a great Bond a few years back but isn’t he getting on a bit now? Maybe he is still capable of pulling it off. Not sure.

However James Bond has to be a bloke (colour isn’t an issue) otherwise it’s Jane Bond and a completely different franchise.

comment by Gillespie Rd. (U18361)
posted 3 hours, 57 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
Here's the reason they won't fvck with the formula too much.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/James-Bond#tab=summary
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OK, I'll bite.

Eon have been "fvcking with the formula" with their casting decisions for 3 decades now. This data shows a cumulative rise in earnings with significant jumps any time a "controversial / non-traditional" casting decision is made.

Goldeneye - Casting a woman as "M". More than doubled the previous total earnings.

Die Another Day - A black woman as Bond's main love interest. ----A 20% spike in total earnings.

Casino Royale - A moody franchise reboot. Casting a short, stocky, blond-haired man as Bond. As well as having a black man as Felix Leiter (A throwback to the experimental casting in the non-Eon Bond movies). ---- A 40% spike in earnings over the previous movie. Flying in the face of all the anger and talk of boycotts.

Skyfall - Naomie Harris as Moneypenny. With "Q" as an openly gay government operative. -- Still holds the earnings record, almost double the previous movie. Similarly flying in the face of all the anger and talk of boycotts.

No time to die - Same casting choices as Skyfall. With Lashana Lynch as "007" leading to a key change in plot dynamics. --- Fourth highest earning movie worldwide in 2021, despite CoVid. Not to mention a coordinated right-wing smear campaign.

At this point, it seems the actual "winning formula" involves shaking things up every now and then.

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Bollix - if you are attributing success solely to these mildly interesting decisions. Maybe EON are guilty of making good films?

You'd probably get a better correlation with input budget.